Linux binaries should have the

[thejessiekirk@ohai.social]

Linux binaries should have the .elf file extension.

We still have Dwarf, Gnome and Wizard in computing; bring on the Elf!

[alice@mk.nyaa.place]

@thejessiekirk@ohai.social daemon also!

[thing@thegayagenda.fans]

@thejessiekirk@ohai.social

[thing@thebox]~ pacman -Syu
pacman: command not found
[thing@thebox]~ pacman.elf -Syu
error: you cannot perform this operation unless you are root.
[thing@thebox]~ sudo pacman.elf -Syu
sudo: command not found
[thing@thebox]~ sudo.elf pacman.elf -Syu
[sudo] password for thing:
:: Synchronizing package databases...
(...)

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[qyriad@provably.online]

@thejessiekirk on the other hand, we would have to reinvent PATHEXT…

[azonenberg@ioc.exchange]

@thejessiekirk i have used .elf extension a lot in embedded to disambigute e.g. a flat binary flash image from the raw compiler output with all the headers and metadata

[albi@f.cz]

@thejessiekirk
openoffice.orc

[thejessiekirk@ohai.social]

Some of you apparently get off pretending I'm not talking about file extensions but something related to them and then get grumpy at me in the replies over what you pretended I said.

[thejessiekirk@ohai.social]

@alice Is your Craft high enough to face the Daemon tho?

[sjcooke66@mastodon.social]

@thejessiekirk Nah... they're .efless!